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When I meet with people and talk about our work, I get asked a lot what technology we use to create interactive and dynamic data visualizations. To help you get started, we have put together a selection of the tools we use the most and that we enjoy working with.
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We created an interactive visualization of the National Geographic Bee Contest's history. Here we talk about finding the right story, design decisions, and the dirty work of getting data into a usable form.
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GE has published the submissions to their recent Ecomagination Challenge. Instead of an ordered list, they created an interactive visualization that allows a more playful way of browsing through the submitted 2000+ ideas.
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KDDI, Japan’s second largest cellphone carrier, launched a new Twitter related mashup called IS Parade. It's a fun little visualization of Twitter data that let's you create a virtual parade to celebrate your username or any other keyword.
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Nike Basketball partnered up with the good folks from Stamen to create a new visualization for the NBA Playoffs. Post-season Twitter Playoffs compares the competing teams based on how many times their name is mentioned in the Twittersphere.
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The Interactives Team from the New York Times did it again: Shan carter, Amanda Cox and Kevin Quealy created an interactive infographic analysing the unemployment rate in the USA over the past 33 months.
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How can we communicate facts that are abstract or out of our field of vision? Illustrating it is an excellent and often used technic to do so. But how can we go about facts that are impossible to bring on one piece of paper? The University Of Utah has a possible solution.
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A new interactive application from the Wall Street Journal provides an historical view into the national unemployment rate since 1948. Provided with data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics the application does a nice job in immediate insight.
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